Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editorialized the Manchester Guardian: "Into these two letters one may read as much or as little as one chooses. That it should be front-page news for an Archbishop of Canterbury in modern times to pass the time of day . . . with a Pope of Rome is an interesting commentary upon the Church in present-day Europe...
...time this movement got under way, birds had already evolved into modern types. Dr. Wolfson thinks that some of them had learned to make comparatively short seasonal migrations between feeding and nesting places, that generation after generation, for millions of years, they stuck to the same routes. New oceans appeared and widened under their beating wings. New mountains reared up. The climate changed as glaciers crept forward, then melted. The birds, more steadfast than the earth, kept to their ancient flight plan, though their journeys became much longer than at first and twice as long as need...
...American, Leonard Engel tells how technological progress has revived the Stirling engines. Just before the war, an engineer of the big and smart Philips electrical company at Eindhoven, in The Netherlands, stumbled on one of the Stirlings. He and his colleagues decided that all it needed was redesigning with modern materials. During the German occupation, they worked quietly to get their mechanical sleeping beauty in shape for the postwar world...
...just 13 years ago that the fatcat Republican Los Angeles Times moved into a handsome new six-story building. To protect the inlaid city-room floor, reporters were forbidden to smoke. Last week, directly behind this modern plant, another building was nearing completion -a ten-story white shaft with sea-green windows and an affluent look. Times reporters, who long ago broke down the no-smoking rule, were under fresh orders from the management: anybody who entered the new building would be fired on the spot...
Dowdy, old-fashioned Cincinnati gets a new hotel this week. An eleven-story pent-houselike top on an eight-story windowless base (see cut), the $18 million Terrace Plaza Hotel is the city's most revolutionary modern building. It is also the fulfillment of an old ambition for Owner John J. Emery, who inherited a prosperous 100-year-old business (hotels and other real estate) and got his ambitious ideas on art and architecture at Groton, Harvard and Oxford...